I get high with a little help from my friends

"There it was: big and beautiful and high above us...impossible to get in one shot.

This museum is a worthy place to house this wonderful plane. 

"I can't really explain the feeling I had when I approached it...I felt that I was in the presence of true GENIUS~ " 

Me, Rhonda, on my first sight of the "Spruce Goose."

This man had a dream

and the genius brain

to create the world's largest airplane~    

and so he did.

Hmmmm, lovely 

but...   not the one I'm searching for.

Even though they're just for show...

they still give an ominous feeling;

Quite the passionate artwork decorating these planes...

Joel looks longingly at the controls...

A lovely shiny midnight blue but...still not the one.

HOT!

Looking sharp!  ^^^^^^^^

Oh...yeah...most definitely    

"The Hercules was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built. It is over five stories tall with a wingspan longer than a football field. That's more than a city block. Now, I put the sweat of my life into this thing. I have my reputation all rolled up in it and I have stated several times that if it's a failure I'll probably leave this country and never come back. And I mean it."  

Howard Hughes   During a Senate hearing on 6 August 1947

MORE PHOTOS OF THE HERCULES COMING on my next tabblo...!